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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 116, Issue 40, Pages 20077-20086Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905080116
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CD8 T cells; dendritic cells; vaccination; circadian clock; transcriptome
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- Canadian Institute of Health Research [MOP-119322]
- University of Montreal
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Sante
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Circadian variations of various aspects of the immune system have been described. However, the circadian control of T cells has been relatively unexplored. Here, we investigated the role of circadian clocks in regulating CD8 T cell response to antigen presentation by dendritic cells (DCs). The in vivo CD8 T cell response following vaccination with DCs loaded with the OVA257-264 peptide antigen (DC-OVA) leads to a higher expansion of OVA-specific T cells in response to vaccination done in the middle of the day, compared to other time points. This rhythm was dampened when DCs deficient for the essential clock gene Bmal1 were used and abolished in mice with a CD8 T cell-specific Bmal1 deletion. Thus, we assessed the circadian transcriptome of CD8 T cells and found an enrichment in the daytime of genes and pathways involved in T cell activation. Based on this, we investigated early T cell activation events. Three days postvaccination, we found higher T cell activation markers and related signaling pathways (including IRF4, mTOR, and AKT) after a vaccination done during the middle of the day compared to the middle of the night. Finally, the functional impact of the stronger daytime response was shown by a more efficient response to a bacterial challenge at this time of day. Altogether, these results suggest that the clock of CD8 T cells modulates the response to vaccination by shaping the transcriptional program of these cells and making them more prone to strong and efficient activation and proliferation according to the time of day.
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